Corset-cover.



L. T. FURNA-S.

CORSET COVER.

APPLICATION 11.31) JUNE 6, 1912.

1,086,153. K Patented Feb. 3, 1914.

WITNESSES INVENTOR Linus T. Furnqs ATTORNEYS LINUS T. FURNAS, OF LIMA, OHIO.

, CORSET-COVER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

I Patented Feb. 3,1914.

Application filed June 6, 1912. Serial No. 702,063.

' To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, LINUS T. FURNAs, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Lima, in the county of Allen and State of Ohio, have invented a new and Improved Corset-Cover, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to a new and im proved garment in the form of a corset cover or brassiere which is adapted for contraction or expansion at both top and bottom and intermediately on a vertical median line for giving a desired contour to the bust and waist.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference inclicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the garment as applied; Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the same; Fig. 3 is an elevation of the upper front portion of the garment showing the top adjusting means in open position; Fig. 4 is a similar view of the lOWer front portion of the garment showing the waist-adjusting means; and Fig. 5 is an elevation of the lower rear portion of the garment.

The body A of the garment is provided with a continuous front B and shoulder straps C, and the rear of the body A is open and is provided at the lower rear corners with tying strings D adapted to be passed around the waist of the wearer over the corset E to be tied into a knot D at the front, as plainly indicated in Fig. 1. It is understood that the rear ends of the body A are crossed or overlapped at the rear, as indicated in Fig. 2. The front B is cut out at F and strings G are attached to the upper corners of the cut out to permit adjustment of the side edges and corners closer toge her or farther apart according to the wearers figure. The front B is also cut out at the lower portion on the median line, thus forming a V-shaped opening H. A tape I, forming part of the waist-band of the garment, extends across the lower opening H, as plainly indicated in Fig. l, and on the said tape I is slidingly mounted adownwardlyextending buckle strap J carrying an adj ustable loop J adapted to hook onto one of the studs E of the corset E at the busks thereof, as plainly indicated in Fig. 1. Thus by the arrangement described the garment is drawn downward at the waist line, and at the same time the lower points of the cut-out portion H are drawn inwardly together to the extent that the size of the waist will permit, causing the garment automatically to adapt itself. to any ordinary size of waist. Strings K are also attached to the side walls of the cut-out portion H near the lower end there of, enabling the wearer further to draw in the garment in case of an extremely small waist, thus taking up all surplus size at the waist line in every instance. It is understood that the strings Gr and K are tied with bows after the desired adjustments are made.

The front B of the-body A is provided at the sides with reinforced bands B extending from the waist, adjacent the cut-out portion H, upwardly to the neckband to one side of the top cut-out portion F, as plainly indicated in Fig. 1. A cross band or plait B connects the side bands B with each other at the apex of the cut-out portion F, and another cross band or plait B connects the side bands B with each other a distance downward from the cross band B so as to leave a shirring portion B between the said cross bands B and B The sides of the shirring portion B terminate at the corresponding portions of the side bands B. The shirring port-ion B is provided at the median line with slots or headings B engaged by shirring strings L, of which one is secured at one end tothe cross band B and the other is secured at one end to the cross band B The shirring strings L are adapted to be tied into a bow at the middle of the shirring portion B so that on drawing the shirring strings L more or less together the portion B is shirred more or less in an up and down direction. The purpose of this is as follows: Vhen the walls of the cut-out portion H are drawn together by hooking down the strap J or by tying strings K, there is produced a longitudinal surplus of material along the walls and immediately above the apex of the same, destroying the fit of the garment. This is also true in less degree of the cutout portion F at the top. By drawing the shirring strings L the surplus is taken away both at the top and bottom and consumed in the shirring portion B where it also provides toan exact degree the extra rotundity required by a bust that is proportionately large for the waist.

From the foregoing it will be seen that all adjustments are provided at the median line of the front of the garment at the top, at

the bottom and immediately below the top adjustment, and the top and bottom adjustments permit of drawing in or letting out in a sidewise direction, while the intermediate adjustment of the shining portion B per mits an up and down drawing in or letting out of the corresponding portion of the garment, so that the latter can be readily adjusted to any shaped figure irrespective of the relative sizes of waist and bust.

It will be noticed that in case the waist of the wearer is quite large in proportion to the bust then the two sides of the bottom cut-out portion H stand apart a sufficient distance to fit the garment to the size of the waist, and if the waist is abnormally large the cut-out portion readily permits opening up to fit itself to the size perfectly, and likewise the bottom adjustment perfectly adapts itself to any size of waist between the exceedingly large and the small.

By the arrangement described the garment draws correctly over the bust where the figure needs confining.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Petent:

l. A garment of the character described, comprising a body which has front alined openings at both top and bottom, and pro vided intermediately and directly below the top opening with a shirred portion, and strings applied for closing the two openings and also contracting the shirr more or less, as and for the purpose specified.

2. A garment of the character described, comprising a body open at the rear and continuous at the front, the front having along its median line a V-shaped cut-out portion at the top and an inverted V-shaped cut-out portion at the waist, a waistband at the lower margin of the said body and extending across the wide gap of the waist cut-out portion, a buckle strap depending from the said waistband at the waist cut-out portion, sets of strings connected with the front at the sides of the top and waist cut-out portions, and shirring strings interlaced with the upper portion of the front immediately below the said top cut-out portion, the said shirring strings being arranged to shirr the said front upper portion in an up and down direction.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LINUS T. FURNAS.

Witnesses:

THEo. G. Hos'rnn, PHILIP D. ROLLHAUS.

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